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nobody 1y ago

Today I finished setting up my new dedicated server with Plesk, Softaculous, and got it set up to host PHP, Node, and .NET applications.

I also began rebuilding my websites and blogs, unifying my online personas.

What next?

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☠️ π•―π–—π–Šπ–†π–‰ π•»π–Žπ–—π–†π–™π–Š ☠️ 1y ago

Chainsaw sculpture.

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nobody 1y ago

I have my eye on a new chainsaw, ngl.

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Mike Dilger β˜‘οΈ 1y ago

Stop staring at my new chainsaw!

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nobody 1y ago

I can’t.

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_ 1y ago

I’m hoping to do this with my laptop πŸ’» and host my 1️⃣ 2️⃣ or 3️⃣ domains

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nobody 1y ago

Plesk is easy.

Easiest if you still use external DNS for your domains.

Still not so bad if you decide to be your own name server.

Give me a holler if you have any issues with that last part.

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_ 1y ago

Sure thing πŸ€™

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Mike Dilger β˜‘οΈ 1y ago

Unattended upgrades? iptables? ssh config lockdown?

I used to manage nearly a thousand websites running mostly on PHP and using parallels plesk. I grew to hate plesk. It doesn't respect system services, it overwrites them. It takes ownership of everything and forces you to do everything through plesk... and then fails to support everything you want to do.

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nobody 1y ago

Haven’t had any issues so far. I don’t like unattended upgrades, so I won’t be doing that. The reminder to check SSH configs is a good one though. I did set up 2FA for web login, etc and set the firewall up.

Backups. I need to get automatic backups going. 😬

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Mike Dilger β˜‘οΈ 1y ago

We had customers who got cryptolockered and they encrypted the backups as well as the main system. So do something to prevent that.

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nobody 1y ago

Hmm. I was looking at an extension to dump backups to S3 compatible storage. I should be able to set up some sort of immutability depending on the vendor I think? πŸ€”